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Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Ben Horowitz

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.
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Manager Models Needs Role
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.
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Answer Culture Management
You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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Dignity Jobs Management
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.
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Baby Hours Motivation
What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.
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Lemming Sheep Venture
A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Excellent Job Lot Mentorship Training
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.
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Book Enemy Fighting
How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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Jobs Skills Training
You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.
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Differences People Vision
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.
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Bullets Consequences Silver
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that’s so important that it supersedes everyone’s personal ambition.
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Ambition Important Mission
Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.
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Career Decision Emotional
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People

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